wildlife management

The Temple of Sinawava dam, built in 1957, kept native fish like flannelmouth suckers pinned downstream on the Virgin River.

Because a lot of water from the San Rafael River gets used upstream, more of its path through southeast Utah is drying up. That’s transforming the river’s flow patterns and leaving native fish stranded. But scientists are testing ways to give them a better chance at survival.

The Biden administration is keeping protections in place for more than 2,000 grizzly bears in western states despite requests to lift the safeguards. The fearsome bruins have been federally protected since 1975 as a threatened species.

Hunting, a series of harsh summers and severe winters and population transfers have led to a decline in mountain goats on Willard Peak and Ben Lomond north of North Ogden.

Wild horse advocates are frustrated they can’t bring dehydrated horses water, but the BLM says that would do more harm than good.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials announced Friday that it has rejected petitions from environmental groups to add wolves in the northern Rockies and parts of the western U.S. to the Endangered Species List.

The data gathered through Utah’s year-old Roadkill Reporter app is helping the state better understand migration patterns and keep highways safe.

Like hundreds of other ranchers in Colorado, the Stanko family is anxious about wolf packs being airlifted back to this state, where they were eradicated by the 1940s.

The project near Moab had a breakthrough this fall in its quest to give young Colorado River fish a refuge from invasive predators.

Snowy weather brings deer – and the cougars that eat them – closer to human-occupied lower elevations of Utah. Here’s when you should report a sighting.

The Bureau of Land Management quietly posted a notice on its website last week that it will no longer use the M-44 ejector devices across the 390,625 square miles it manages nationally.

Grey wolves are one of the most controversial animals in the West, and how you can manage the species depends on what state you're in. Along the Colorado-Wyoming border, that friction is part of daily life.